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Place of Birth: Asphodel-Norwood, Ontario, Canada
About Josiah Williams Pearce
- Josiah Williams "Si" Pearce (January 18, 1850 – May 25, 1938) was a merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada.
- He represented Hastings North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1902 to 1911 as a Conservative member.The son of Peter Pearce and Almira Edmonds, he was born in Norwood and was educated there.
- Pearce began working as a clerk in a general store there, later moving to Marmora, where he opened his own business.
- He served as reeve for Marmora from 1890 to 1893 and from 1895 to 1902, and was warden for Hastings County in 1901.
- He was also secretary-treasurer for the Pearce Lumber Company.
- Pearce built the first retail mall in Marmora which included a bakery, a livery store and the town newspaper office.Pearce was married three times: first to Bessie Bramley in 1877, then to Julia C.
- Houston in 1891 and finally to Mary.From 1911 to 1923, he was bursar for the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville.
- Pearce died in Belleville at the age of 88.
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